Ron Cook writes today that Cowher made the absolute right decision in playing Ben. I beg to differ.

It was widely reported last night during the game that Ben had a 104 degree fever earlier in the day. People? When PittGirl runs a 102 fever, I am bedridden, drinking chicken broth like mojitos, and alternately piling up six blankets and then ripping them all off five minutes later while cursing the fact that air has to touch me. At 104, I’m pretty sure I’d start deciding who will get possession of my autographed Franco Harris Jersey and try to bend over to kiss my own ass hasta la vista.

Playing Monday Night Football? I think by the fourth quarter Ben was hallucinating:

Granted, the rest of the team sucked ass too (Hi, Santonio). Even Hines wasn’t looking too great. And check this out:

Hines is NOT SMILING in that photo. I ask you, when is the last time Mr. I Shit Sunshine took a photo on the field in which he wasn’t grinning from 12 carat earring to 12 carat earring?

I’m probably being simple minded when I say that there must have been some point in the fourth quarter when The Chin could have pulled Ben aside and said, look, you’re obviously not feeling very well. Let’s let Charlie give you some rest. But that didn’t happen.

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But what of the healing power of Troy “wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating crackers” Polamalu? Perhaps in the guise of a manly, encouraging hinder-slap he could have laid hands on Ben? Or maybe you should just send him over here to *whisper* Cleveland *whisper* to lay some hands on me? I promise I’ll give him back…

Speaking of Troy, did you guys notice his gimpy right arm. His right shoulder is what was hurt, but my husband and I were watching, his right arm was basically limp the whole game and he Definitely was missing some tackles that he usually makes. Hmm, our star offensive guy and star defensive guy are sick and injured. Yeah, that game sucked major ass.

I think Jesus is mad at all of us. Maybe I’m just not a Big Tough Man but I agree that Ben probably could have used another week off. And, what was all that business at the beginning of the game when the ESPN peeps were talking about how there’s a 4-6 week recuperation after Ben’s surgery? Has the entire Pgh media been lying to us about this? Everyone here’s like, “I know his temp’s 104 but his surgery was a whole 15 days ago, he’s fine!” Hmmm.

I think The Chin (love that, my son started calling him that three years ago after The Crimson Chin) is saying, “it’s going to be…ALL RIGHT…” Heinz looks like he wants to show The Chin some all right….

Looking back, I am kind of amused at how shitty I felt after that game, and how awful the looks were on the faces of the Steelers in the 3rd quarter, like “Oh my god! We’re getting eliminated from the playoffs! We’re getting locked out of playoff berth! How could this BEEE?” And it’s like, one little game. Shit, its been a long time since we lost.